1893
ink
paper
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Yellow House, Lannion is a 1893 ink by James McNeill Whistler, a Impressionism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This sketch shows a simple yellow house with green shutters, drawn in loose, quick lines. The building has two windows on the ground floor and one on the upper level, with a small porch in front. The roof is steep, and the walls look slightly uneven, like it was drawn fast. The background has a faint, smudgy sky with a few trees or branches on the left. The artist used soft colors—mostly yellows, greens, and browns—with some purple and black shadows. The lines are sketchy, almost like a quick note rather than a finished drawing. This style was common in prints made from lithography, where the artist drew directly onto a stone. Next, check out lithography to see how artists like Whistler made prints this way.
James Abbott McNeill Whistler was an American painter in oils and watercolor, and printmaker, active during the American Gilded Age and based primarily in the United Kingdom.
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